For more detail, try using Heavens-Above. This excellent website lets you put in your location and the date, and then tells you how to spot star-patterns, satellites and all sorts of things. You can print out star-maps to help you find your way around the sky.

You can see so much (coloured stars, planets, nebulae, satellites, meteors, galaxies and more) just with your eyes, but if you can get hold of binoculars or a telescope then you will be amazed by how much more can be seen. Here's some advice from the University of Manchester for anybody thinking of buying binoculars or a telescope.

Read the latest space news

Join a club / go to an event

There are lots of clubs and societies in the region. Note however that most astronomy societies have a lower age limit for members.

There are also many local astronomical societies around the UK who do lots of different things. To find one wherever you live, look at HantsAstro's AstroSouth directory for societies in the south of England or on the Federation of Astronomical Societies website for national coverage.

Finally, check out the Society for Popular Astronomy, http://www.popastro.com/, who have just started a kids' section. They have plenty of information about how to get involved with astronomy.

Be part of a research project

YOU can contribute to important scientific investigations. There are lots of images of space that need to be analysed, but sometimes computers cannot work as well as a human brain. You can volunteer to help by looking at images online in your own time, maybe even getting your name on a research paper. Here are three projects you could be part of:

Solar Stormwatch (Royal Observatory Greenwich) – spot solar storms. As well as learning new things about our Sun, this project helps warn astronauts if there is dangerous space-weather coming their way.

World Wide Telescope from Microsoft lets you explore the night sky and zoom in to find interesting objects, with links to pictures and information.

Eyes on the Solar System - NASA's fantastic new tool allows you to keep track on all its current missions and explore our solar system and beyond...

Other fun stuff

Solar system visualiser - watch planets and moons orbiting in our solar system and also around other stars! See the shapes of the orbits and how fast the objects move as they go around. Very simple to use.

If you know any other websites that you think should be on this list, let us know! Also it is inevitable that some of these links will get out of date. Please let us know if you spot any so the Science Centre can avoid other people being disappointed.